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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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